"He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once living body of his darling child whom he so loved. His life was destroyed. They had partially destroyed it anyway by forcing his servitude but this act finished it for him. All of this filth had occurred because one man, one man who lived thousands of miles across the sea, one man who couldn’t get rich enough, had decreed that this land was his and that these people should serve his own greed. Leopold had not given any thought to the idea that these African children, these men and women, were our fully human brothers, created equally by the same Hand that had created his own lineage of European Royalty."
so happy white people are getting BLACKED out of existence the melanin will make them more humane
Evan Russell
They look like they could use a hand.
Liam Roberts
So that's what this stands for.
Eli Morales
They actually benefited from it though.
Jason Gray
Leopold didn't know or care about shit in the Congo as long as he was getting paid and the Belgians there relied on Africans to do their dirty work. You think that the Congo was a stone-age utopia before whitey showed up? Africans were doing that kind of heinous shit to each other long before colonialism and still are today.
Ethan Gray
What use is a hand if they can't make rubber quota?
As a concerned Belgian, what exactly is wrong with what he did? African lives were less than they could be repaid in debt, so it seems like a perfectly good solution to do this at the time.
Alexander James
It was to make sure they were using their bullets to kill people instead of animals.
You realize that if the overseers didn't punish the slaves they were punished themselves, that the only way to get out of slavery was to join the Belgians pet miliita?
who the hell do you think was paying the overseers. supervising the overseers, and setting the quotas?
Nathan Price
>Leopold's bastardess daughter that he had with a Parisian child prostitute had deformed hands pottery
this the method, especially the cannibalism part is nigger tier, they probably have been doing it long before belgians came
Logan Powell
>actually trying to justify this kill yourselves
Ryder Martinez
Your right. Pagan blacks using each other's hands for soup is awful. Good thing Angels from Europe stoped it.
Christian Brown
They should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps instead they blame the white man as fucking per...
Brody Richardson
I still don't get this. Even assuming that the Belgians were that evil, why would you cripple your future workforce? There is a reason overseers who were too eager to whip their slaves were fired in the South, and its not out of kindness.
Christian Morales
Leopold delegated managing the place to a company, and didn't give a shit about what was actually happening. The company in turn only gave a shit about short term profit.
Nathaniel Stewart
>Blacks mutilated blacks >It's whitey's fault
Okay
Ethan Fisher
Yes it is. And if you can look at the context and not figure out why, you're an idiot.
Andrew Williams
This exactly.
Kevin Evans
>belgians appoints local leaders >local leaders starts mutilating people
Connor Lopez
Most responsibility is given to the concession company. It's not that unusual in colonial Africa with how concession worked. governing the area is too hard, or expensive so you sell the concession to a company that will do it for you and will milk the population for their and through taxes your profit
